Skip to comments.
"Generals in Bronze," Details Artist James Kelly's Civil War Interviews
Associated Press ^
| 10/23/05
| NAHAL TOOSI
Posted on 10/23/2005 4:43:13 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
One Civil War debate that Styple's book might help settle is whether Meade wanted to withdraw from Gettysburg. According to Kelly's interview with Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, Meade considered leaving but his men did not want to.
Hancock said the Union general remarked: "As you wish gentlemen; but Gettysburg is no place to fight a battle in."
To: stainlessbanner; billbears; Constitution Day
2
posted on
10/23/2005 4:47:12 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. ")
To: Non-Sequitur; teldon30; .cnI redruM; gobucks; Irish_Thatcherite; neocon1984; Tallguy
To: Dr. Scarpetta
"As you wish gentlemen; but Gettysburg is no place to fight a battle in."
well, they did alright....
4
posted on
10/23/2005 4:50:46 PM PDT
by
injin
To: Fee; tbpiper; Fenris6; RobbyS; R. Scott; onyx; aft_lizard; GeorgiaDawg32; RHS in Fairfield
To: The Iguana; faireturn; LS; woofer; trek; RightWhale; Zeroisanumber; Morgan's Raider
To: Dr. Scarpetta
7
posted on
10/23/2005 5:17:37 PM PDT
by
lunarbicep
(If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. –Jonathan Winters)
To: Dr. Scarpetta
"His interviews covered a range of subjects, from Gen. George A. Custer's "boyish chuckle" and his canteen of iced tea..."
Interesting, as iced tea was not invented until the 1904 worlds fair at St. Louis, MO.
Oddly enough by an Englishman pushing tea, his hot tea was not selling well, but a nearby stand was doing good selling flavored shaved ice. He purchased some ice for his tea, proved a roaring success to the crowds, and the American icon of iced tea is now history.
8
posted on
10/23/2005 6:17:24 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: Dr. Scarpetta
9
posted on
10/23/2005 6:25:47 PM PDT
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: Dr. Scarpetta
Just when I had promised myself I wouldnt buy anymore books for a couple years.
10
posted on
10/24/2005 2:31:00 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Tax-chick
One general told Kelly how Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's drinking had led him to resign as a captain in 1854. The account claims that Grant remarked: "I'll make my mark yet. I don't propose to remain in the gutter."Well considering his presidency, he just apparently surrounded himself with men from the gutter
11
posted on
10/24/2005 7:23:11 AM PDT
by
billbears
(Deo Vindice)
To: billbears
President Grant had bad judgment, unfortunately.
12
posted on
10/24/2005 5:04:35 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. ")
To: chesley; bourbon; LibertarianInExile; Nasty McPhilthy; injin; McCainMutiny; MacDorcha; JohnPigg; ...
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
Sherman, Grant, and Abe liked the colonization idea for Southerners (black, white, or Cherokee/Seminole)
To: stainlessbanner
Thanks! One more book I will have to add to the collection...
FReegards!
15
posted on
10/25/2005 6:07:06 AM PDT
by
RebelBanker
(Deo Vindice)
To: stainlessbanner
Thanks SB . . . perfect timing for my Christmas list. Even though I havn't been good. ;^)
16
posted on
10/25/2005 7:35:58 AM PDT
by
w_over_w
(Bam, bam, bam-bam-bam . . .LET'S GO ASTROS!!)
To: Tax-chick
Bump. Sounds very interesting.
17
posted on
10/25/2005 7:38:57 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Hypocrite opportunist. Don't infect me with your poison.)
To: injin
"As you wish gentlemen; but Gettysburg is no place to fight a battle in."
Wish Lee would have thought that.
18
posted on
10/25/2005 9:28:15 AM PDT
by
smug
(Tanstaafl)
To: smug
Lee should have listened to Longstreet .
He was either too puffed up or too head in the clouds
about Providence. He paid the cost....
19
posted on
10/25/2005 11:28:15 AM PDT
by
injin
To: stainlessbanner
Sherman, Grant, and Abe liked the colonization idea for Southerners (black, white, or Cherokee/Seminole) When did any Southerners get deported? Some instigators of the rebellion ran away from the country leaving their Confederate cannon fodder to rebuild the region, but I never heard of any such abuses from the "evil Yankees".
If Sherman was such an ogre why did an honorable Confederate like Joe Johnston serve as a pallbearer at the great man's funeral?
I'll take Joe Johnston's opinion of the man.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson